IGT Standards

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Various sources offer recommendations of best practices concerning IGT. This page
provides an overview of two sources of standards. Please note that this is by no
means an exhaustive survey of reputable recommendations.

One respected linguistic group produced the Leipzip Glossing Rules. The rules were
developed by the Department of Linguistics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology and the Department of Linguistics of the University of Leipzig. Their ten
rules concern:

Lehmann offers 32 rules for dealing with morphology in an IGT. The rules concern glossing,
boundary symbols and typographic conventions. When these, or any, standards are consistently
followed, there is less risk of confusion and ambiguity.